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Engineering design often involves the integration of new design ideas into existing
products, requiring designers to think simultaneously about abstract properties and
functions as well as concrete solution constraints. Often designers struggle to reason
with functional descriptions, while not fixating on existing solutions. This paper
introduces the Contact & Channel Model (C&CM) approach, which combines abstract functional
models of technical systems with the concrete geometric descriptions that many designers
are familiar with. By locating functions at working surface pairs, they receive a
concrete location in mental models. The C&CM approach can be applied to analyze existing
product descriptions and synthesize creative new solutions for parts of the system
or for entire new systems. At the moment the approach is being developed into an complete
modeling and problem solving approach. C&CM has been used for several years in undergraduate
engineering teaching at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) and is increasingly being
introduced into industry by its use in research and development projects, by its students
and its alumni. |
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authors |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/16562 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/20005 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/2414 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/9039 |
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AcademicArticle |
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Article |
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label |
Albers, Albert; Ohmer, Manfred and Eckert, Claudia (2004). Engineering design in
a different way: cognitive perspective on the contact and channel model approach.
In: Visual and Spatial Reasoning in Design, 22-23 Jul 2003, University of Sydney,
Cambridge, MA, USA. |
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label |
Albers, Albert; Ohmer, Manfred and Eckert, Claudia (2004). Engineering design
in a different way: cognitive perspective on the contact and channel model approach.
In: Visual and Spatial Reasoning in Design, 22-23 Jul 2003, University of Sydney,
Cambridge, MA, USA. |
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Title |
Engineering design in a different way: cognitive perspective on the contact and channel
model approach |
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oro |